This View of Life
Magazine

We seem to be unable to punish bankers for their scandalous behaviour.

An intellectual debate about the nature of religious belief and violence. Anthropologist Scott Atran responds to New Atheist Sam Harris.Harris’s views on religion ignore the considerable progress in cognitive studies on the subject over the last two decades, which show that core religious beliefs do not have fixed propositional content .

A newly-discovered ancient horse species lived about 4.4 million years ago.

Critics charge 'academic freedom' legislation in Colorado, Missouri, Montana and Oklahoma is just creationism in disguise.

Why our moral psychology makes it difficult to teach ethics.I give a brief overview of an evolutionary approach to moral psychology in which people are mostly concerned about appearances and reputation, rather than actually doing the right thing. I explain why this complex psychology makes it difficult to teach ethics to anyone. Yet an understanding of the origins and mechanisms of moral cognition open the way for us to do (and teach) “<a href="http://www.ethicalsystems.org/">ethical systems design</a>,” a way of working with human nature and setting up environments that lead to better ethical behavior.

Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics.

The sheer diversity of life shows us that there are multiple ways to solve a problem: animals have evolved different ways to ensure safety.

If there is a simple lesson about sex that the vinegar worm can teach us, it's that sex is never simple.